The piano tuner of earthquakes [videorecording] / Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung GmbH, UK Film Council, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg GmbH present a co-production with Arte France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte, in association with Drefa Media Holding GmbH ... [et al.] ; Koninck Studios PTE, Mediopolis Film-und Fernsehproduktion, Lumen Films production ; producers, Keith Griffiths, Alexander Ris, Hengameh Panahi ; scenario, Alan Passes & Quay Brothers ; direction, design, animation, Quay Brothers.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Zeitgeist Films,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna, César Sarachu, Ljubisa Lupo-Grujcic, Marc Bischoff, Henning Peker, Gilles Gavois, Volker Zack, Thomas Schmieder, Regine Zimmermann, Emil Petrov. Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Special features: "The making of 'The piano tuner of Earthquakes':" a 50-minute featurette including an extensive interview with the Quay Brothers and behind-the-scenes footage; Locarno Film Festival press conference with the Quay Brothers, producers Keith Griffiths and Alexander Ris, and star Amira Casar; original theatrical trailer ; print interview with the Quays by Jonathan Marlow, from GreenCine.
Summary:
On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously "killed" and abducted by the malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa to service his strange musical automata. Little by little Felisberto learns of the doctor's plans to stage a "diabolic opera" and of Malvina's fate. He secretly conspires to rescue her, only to become trapped himself in the web of Droz's perverse universe.
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